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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined the company that owns the fertilizer plant in West, Texas, for safety violations following a massive explosion at the facility in April, which left 15 dead and more than 100 injured. …

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said governors need to ensure that their states have chemical regulations on the books because the federal government has not acted in the wake of the explosion, which killed 15 people. …

In Texas where 16 fertilizer plants are as large as the one in West, officials are putting the lazy in laissez-faire by adopting a voluntary “fertilizer happens” plan. Apparently Texans are on their own when it comes to industrial accidents, and the only government that bears any responsibility is the one in Washington that should be paying to rebuild everything. …